„Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

(Interview,, February 20, 2005)“

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Clint Eastwood39

actor and director from the United States 1930

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„If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from when you go to sleep at night, just look around. This is where they are made.“

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„Oh, come on, you've got to use your flow.
You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.“

— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

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You know what it's like, and you know you want to go.
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Don't put your blues where your shoes should be.
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„When your priorities are straight;

Decisions are easy to make.

Sometimes it is very arduous to move on, but

You shall realize it was the Best Decision

you have ever made.

I left a very secure position

to take a new and intimidating

position in The Big City.

I became even bigger and better

than I even thought!

Take a chance…

or else you shall regret it the rest of your

life.“

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„When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.“

— Nora Roberts American romance writer 1950

Way

„Gays and lesbians, when you fight against discrimination and a cure for AIDS, you are right - but your patch is not big enough. Conservatives and progressives, when you fight for what you believe, right wing, left wing, hawk, dove, you are right from your point of view, but your point of view is not enough.“

— Jesse Jackson African-American civil rights activist and politician 1941

Address to the Democratic National Convention (July 19, 1988)

Fight

„I got my feet on the ground and I don't go to sleep to dream;
You've got your head in the clouds and you're not at all what you seem.
This mind, this body and this voice cannot be stifled by your deviant ways.
So don't forget what I told you, don't come around, I got my own hell to raise.“

— Fiona Apple singer-songwriter, musician 1977

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Dreams, Way, Hell, Sleep

„How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?
You may talk of pluck; it's an easy word,
And where'er you go it is often heard;
But can you tell to a jot or guess
Just how much courage you now possess?You may stand to trouble and keep your grin,
But have you tackled self-discipline?
Have you ever issued commands to you
To quit the things that you like to do,
And then, when tempted and sorely swayed,
Those rigid orders have you obeyed?Don't boast of your grit till you've tried it out,
Nor prate to men of your courage stout,
For it's easy enough to retain a grin
In the face of a fight there's a chance to win,
But the sort of grit that is good to own
Is the stuff you need when you're all alone.How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you turn from joys that you like a lot?
Have you ever tested yourself to know
How far with yourself your will can go?
If you want to know if you have grit,
Just pick out a joy that you like, and quit.It's bully sport and it's open fight;
It will keep you busy both day and night;
For the toughest kind of a game you'll find
Is to make your body obey your mind.
And you never will know what is meant by grit
Unless there's something you've tried to quit.“

— Edgar Guest American writer 1881 - 1959

Source: Just Folks (1917), On Quitting

Night, Men, Game, Courage

„Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.“

— Seth Godin American entrepreneur, author and public speaker 1960

Source: Poke the Box

Chance

„I would say the main thing in any young kid's life is education. Even if a guy is prejudiced, he can be educated to understand why he is prejudiced. Education plays a great role in all life, whether you're black or white. You've got to go to high school, you've got to go to college. When you come out of college or high school, you can play sports. If you ever get hurt, they can't take that brain away from you, you've got that.“

— Willie Mays Baseball player 1931

Academy of Achievement Interview (1996)

Life, Education, School, Guy

„It ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough.
Man meets woman and they fall in love.
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough.
And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above
If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love.“

— Bruce Springsteen American singer and songwriter 1949

"Tunnel of Love"
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Love, Learning, Housing

„It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about, can you?“

— Kazuo Ishiguro, book When We Were Orphans

Source: When We Were Orphans

„If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Soul

„No use weepin' when the milk is spilled,
No use growlin' when your hopes are killed,
No use kickin' when the lightnin' strikes
Or the floods come along an' wreck your dykes;
Only thing for a man right then
Is to grit his teeth an' start again.For it's how life is an' the way things are
That you've got to face if you travel far;
An' the storms will come an' the failures, too,
An' plans go wrong spite of all you do;
An' the only thing that will help you win,
Is the grit of a man and a stern set chin.“

— Edgar Guest American writer 1881 - 1959

Source: When Day is Done (1921), No Use Sighin' , stanzas 3 and 4.

Failure, Life, Help, Hope

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— Jesse Ventura American politician and former professional wrestler 1951

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Pain, Art, Way, Hurt

„If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was“

— Albert Schweitzer French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher 1875 - 1965

Love

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you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.“

— Dr. Seuss American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books 1904 - 1991

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Chance

„But of course you should have retreated at once from the dominant male. Are you an idiot? You are extremely lucky he was distracted from ripping out your throat by the fruit. He thought you were trying to steal his females.“

— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

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— Nicholas Negroponte American computer scientist 1943

Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_negroponte_a_30_year_history_of_the_future, July 2014, TED Talks (about 13:40 into 19:43 video).
A 30-year history of the future, TED Talk (2014)

Learning, Change

„You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.“

— Haruki Murakami, book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Life, Thinking

„As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.“

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross American psychiatrist 1926 - 2004

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„Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.(Interview,, February 20, 2005)“

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„Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

(Interview,, February 20, 2005)“